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Funny, I was doing this in HS in 2003. I was one of the few kids with a cell phone (Nokia), I'd quietly dial E-Trade's automated line to check prices on my stock portfolio.

Didn't make 300k though.



Mark Zuckerberg: My friend Eduardo made three hundred thousand dollars betting oil futures one summer and Eduardo won’t come close to getting in. And the ability to make money doesn’t impress anybody around here.

Erica Albright: Must be nice. He made three hundred thousand dollars in a summer.

Mark Zuckerberg: He likes meteorology.

Erica Albright: You said it was oil futures.

Mark Zuckerberg: You can read the weather, you can predict the price of heating oil.




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